MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN RONALD REAGAN

I would have voted for a ham sandwich over Hillary Clinton. When I voted for Donald Trump for President, I did not believe that he would really do half the things that he said he would do. I did not believe that he would govern as a conservative. I barely believed him to be a conservative. In fact, I thought he might be a just slightly left of center, compared to off the charts far-left Hillary Clinton. None of this mattered, from my perspective, a choice for Donald Trump was the superior choice to Hillary Clinton. I was wrong. Donald Trump has continued to surprise me. He has nerves of steel. He does not give a fig what the bi-coastal elites think of him. He (correctly) knows that Americans with real jobs, appreciate him. He has governed as a conservative. In fact, he has governed even more conservatively than Ronald Reagan did in his first year in office. I would have never believed it. But it is true. Donald Trump has out-Reaganed Reagan.  It's official: Donald Trump has governed even more conservatively than Ronald Reagan. Who'd a thunk it? Not me, I admit it.

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from gateway pundit

Conservative Heritage Foundation Rates Trump’s First Year Better Than Reagan’s

January 25, 2018 by Jim Hoft Guest post by Joe Hoft

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News Flash to Conservatives in the Republican Party – According to the Heritage Foundation President Trump did an amazing job in his first year in office – even better than conservative and American icon President Ronald Reagan!

The New York Times reported that the conservative Heritage Foundation ranks President Trump as doing even better than conservative icon President Ronald Reagan in the first year of his Presidency –

The Trump administration has pursued policies that have hewed remarkably close to the recommendations of a leading conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, which found in a new review that nearly two-thirds of its ideas had been carried out or embraced by the White House over the past year.

Not one to dwell on the details of governing, President Trump has shown a considerable degree of deference to groups within the conservative movement like Heritage, leading to a rightward shift in social, environmental, immigration and foreign policy.

 The results, Heritage found in its review, exceeded even the first year of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, whose tenure has long been the conservative gold standard.”

The Times continued that as the horrible Obama years came to an end –

Heritage began developing in 2016 a list of 334 policy prescriptions that a new Republican administration could adopt. It included a variety of actions, like reimposing work requirements for welfare recipients, ending the program that shields young immigrants brought here illegally as children, withdrawing from the Paris climate accord and eliminating certain gender identity protections.

Heritage said that 64 percent of those items were enacted by the administration either through executive order or another means of enforcement, or included in Mr. Trump’s budget, which has not been voted on by Congress.

In Reagan’s first year, only 49 percent of Heritage’s wish list items were embraced by the president or enacted. At the time, Heritage identified a familiar problem for why the administration’s policies were wanting. In almost every federal agency, Heritage said in November 1981, “delayed appointments, unqualified or misqualified appointments, or the appointment of individuals who are not committed to the President’s goals and policies” had delayed or thwarted policy changes.”

President Trump incurred his fair share of challenges during his first year but his results were historic –

It’s time for all conservatives and freedom fighters in the US to get behind this President who stands tall in the face of unjust and slanderous attacks from all sides.  President Trump is Making America Great Again!

Your Food Diary For:

Thursday, January 25, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Hy-vee - Oatmeal - Apples & Cinnamon	770	161	11	21	875	42
	770	161	11	21	875	42
L U N C H
Culver's - Butterburger "the Original", 2	720	78	32	40	1,020	12
	720	78	32	40	1,020	12
D I N N E R
Grilled Teriyaki Chicken	360	10	16	44	640	10
White Rice	300	65	1	6	4	0
Libby's - Sweet Peas	245	42	2	14	1,050	21
	905	117	19	64	1,694	31
S N A C K S
Met Rx Chocolate Cookie Dough	400	58	6	31	167	28
	400	58	6	31	167	28
Totals	2,795	414	68	156	3,756	113
Your Daily Goal	2,041	255	68	103	2,300	76
Remaining	-754	-159	0	-53	-1,456	-37
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 111 extra calories from exercise today

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SORRY. WE'RE OPEN.

The GREAT AMERICAN GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN of 2018 is over. It lasted a bit longer than the GREAT AMERICAN ECLIPSE of last summer. If you were not paying attention, the whole thing was over before you realized it.

So, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, what was the point of this? I hope that you feel good that  you inconvenienced some Americans and tourists who might have wanted to enjoy our National Parks this past weekend.

Our President, the man with nerves of steel did not buckle as you had hoped. He fought back and tweeted all weekend, shining a light on the Democrat Party and where there priorities are. The American people were not quite as stupid as you expected, and they could figure out precisely who was responsible for this useless, pointless 'shutdown.'  Another victory for Donald Trump. He really is winning often. Just as he predicted he would.

The US Government is open for business. It's too bad that includes the Democrats.

Your Food Diary For:

Monday, January 22, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Hy-vee - Oatmeal - Apples & Cinnamon	550	115	8	15	625	30
	550	115	8	15	625	30
L U N C H
Spicy Tuna Maki	400	40	16	21	0	0
Trader Joe's Brioche Roll, 2 roll	320	44	12	10	440	6
Sliced Swiss Cheese	440	4	32	36	240	0
	1,160	88	60	67	680	6
D I N N E R
Chicken Pot Pie	570	48	37	12	760	9
	570	48	37	12	760	9
S N A C K S
Met Rx Chocolate Cookie Dough	400	58	6	31	167	28
	400	58	6	31	167	28
Totals	2,680	309	111	125	2,232	73
Your Daily Goal	2,026	253	67	102	2,300	76
Remaining	-654	-56	-44	-23	68	3
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 96 extra calories from exercise today

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PRESIDENT NOBAMA

Victor Davis Hanson in his National Review column published on January 16th perfectly describes the amazingly terrific job that President Trump is doing.  I don't know if I agree with every word, but it's close. 

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President Nobama

by VICTOR DAVIS HANSON January 16, 2018 4:00 AM @VDHANSON 

Trump is commonsensically undoing, piece by piece, the main components of Obama’s legacy. Donald Trump continues to baffle. Never Trump Republicans still struggle to square the circle of quietly agreeing so far with most of his policies, as they loudly insist that his record is already nullified by its supposedly odious author. Or surely it soon will be discredited by the next Trumpian outrage. Or his successes belong to congressional and Cabinet members, while his failures are all his own. Rarely do they seriously reflect on what otherwise over the last year might have been the trajectory of a Clinton administration. Contrary to popular supposition, the Left loathes Trump not just for what he has done. (It is often too consumed with fury to calibrate carefully the particulars of the Trump agenda.) Rather, it despises him mostly for what he superficially represents.

To many progressives and indeed elites of all persuasions, Trump is also the Prince of Anti-culture: mindlessly naïve American boosterism; conspicuous, 1950s-style unapologetic consumption; repetitive and limited vocabulary; fast-food culinary tastes; Queens accent; herky-jerky mannerisms; ostentatious dress; bulging appearance; poorly disguised facial expressions; embracing rather than sneering at middle-class appetites; a lack of subtlety, nuance, and ambiguity. In short Trump’s very essence wars with everything that long ago was proven to be noble, just, and correct by Vanity Fair, NPR, The New Yorker, Google, the Upper West Side, and The Daily Show. There is not even a smidgeon of a concession that some of Trump’s policies might offer tens of thousands of forgotten inner-city youth good jobs or revitalize a dead and written-off town in the Midwest, or make the petroleum of the war-torn Persian Gulf strategically irrelevant to an oil-rich United States. Yet one way of understanding Trump — particularly the momentum of his first year — is through recollection of the last eight years of the Obama administration. In reductionist terms, Trump is the un-Obama. Surprisingly, that is saying quite a lot more than simple reductive negativism. Republicans have not seriously attempted to roll back the administrative state since Reagan. On key issues of climate change, entitlements, illegal immigration, government spending, and globalization, it was sometimes hard to distinguish a Bush initiative from a Clinton policy or a McCain bill from a Biden proposal. There was often a reluctant acceptance of the seemingly inevitable march to the European-style socialist administrative state. Of course, there were sometimes differences between the two parties, such as the George W. Bush’s tax cuts or the Republicans’ opposition to Obamacare. Yet for the most part, since 1989, we’ve had lots of rhetoric but otherwise no serious effort to prune back the autonomous bureaucracy that grew ever larger. Few Republicans in the executive branch sought to reduce government employment, deregulate, sanction radical expansion of fossil-fuel production, question the economic effects of globalization on Americans between the coasts, address deindustrialization, recalibrate the tax code, rein in the EPA, secure the border, reduce illegal immigration, or question transnational organizations. To do all that would require a president to be largely hated by the Left, demonized by the media, and caricatured in popular culture — and few were willing to endure the commensurate ostracism.

Trump has done all that in a manner perhaps more Reaganesque than Reagan himself. In part, he has been able to make such moves because of the Republican majority (though thin) in Congress and also Even his critics sometimes concede that his economic and foreign-policy agendas are bringing dividends. In some sense, it is not so much because of innovative policy, but rather that he is simply bullying his way back to basics we’ve forgotten over the past decades. The wonder was never how to grow the economy at 3 percent (all presidents prior to 2009 had at one time or another done just that), but rather, contrary to “expert” economic opinion, how to discover ways to prevent that organic occurrence. Obama was the first modern president who apparently figured out how. It took the efforts of a 24/7 redistributionist agenda of tax increases, federalizing health care, massive new debt, layers of more regulation, zero-interest rates, neo-socialist regulatory appointments, expansionary eligibility for entitlements, and constant anti-free-market jawboning that created a psychological atmosphere conducive to real retrenchment, mental holding patterns, and legitimate fears over discernable success. Obama weaponized federal agencies including the IRS, DOJ, and EPA in such a manner as to worry anyone successful, prominent, and conservative enough to come under the federal radar of a vindictive Lois Lerner, Eric Holder, or a FISA court. Trump has sought to undo all that, point by point. The initial result so far is not rocket science, but rather a natural expression of what happens when millions of Americans believe they have greater freedom and safety to profit and innovate, and trust they will not be punished, materially or psychologically, for the ensuing successful results. The radical upsurge in business and consumer confidence is not revolutionary but almost natural. The Left and Never Trump Right claim that Trump is Stalin, Hitler, or Mussolini. In fact, for the first time in eight years, it is highly unlikely that the FBI, IRS, CIA, DOJ, and other alphabet-soup agencies see their tasks as going after the president’s perceived opponents. The same about-face is true on the foreign-policy front, as the ancient practice of deterrence replaced the modern therapeutic mindset. Obama blurred, deliberately so, the lines between allies and hostiles. America experienced the worst of both worlds: We were rarely respected by our friends, even more rarely feared by our enemies; loud rhetorical muscularity was backed up only by “strategic patience” and “leading from behind.” On the supposedly friendly side, Europe assumed that the United States would fawn after the virtue-signaling Paris Climate Accord. The Palestinians concluded that there was no shelf life on victimhood and that America simply would not, could not, dare not move its embassy to Jerusalem as the Congress had chronically showboated it would. NATO just knew that endless subsidies were its birthright and prior commitments were debatable. The West apparently lapped up Obama’s Cairo speech: But when even the European Renaissance and Enlightenment were seen as derivatives of Islam, there is not much left to boast about. On the unfriendly side, China sensed there was little danger in turning the Spratley Islands into an armed valve of the South China Sea. Russia understood that America was obsequiously “flexible” and ready to push a red plastic reset button in times of crisis. ISIS assumed that American lawyers were vetoing air-strike targets. Iran guessed rightly that the Obama administration would concede a lot to strike a legacy deal on nonproliferation. It was unsure only about whether the Obama administration’s eagerness to dissimulate about the disadvantageous details were due to a sincere desire to empower revolutionary, Shiite Iran as an antipode to Israel and the Sunni oil monarchies, or arising from a reckless need to leave some sort of foreign-policy signature. Kim Jung-un concluded that the eight years of the Obama administration provided a rare golden moment to vastly expand its nuclear and missile capability — and then announce it as an irrevocable fait accompli after Obama left office. Again, the common denominator was that the Obama administration, in quite radical fashion, had sought a therapeutic inversion of foreign policy — in a way few other major nations had previously envisioned. Trump’s appointees almost immediately began undoing all that. There were no more effective avatars of old-style deterrence than James Mattis and H. R. McMaster. Neither was political. Both long ago embraced a realist appraisal of human nature, predicated on two ancient ideas: We all are more likely to behave when we accept that the alternative is far more dangerous to ourselves, and the world is better off when everyone knows the laws in the arena. Just as Obama’s pseudo–red lines in Syria signaled to the Iranians or North Koreans that there were few lines of any sort anywhere; so too the destruction of ISIS suggested to others that there might be far fewer restrictions on an American secretary of defense anywhere. On the cultural side, the Trump team figuratively paused, examined its inheritance from the prior administration, and apparently concluded something like “this is unhinged.” Then it proceeded, to the degree possible, to undo it. Open borders, illegal immigration, and sanctuary cities are the norms of very few sovereign states. They are aberrations that are unsustainable whether the practitioner is Canada, Mexico, or the United States. Calling a small pond or large puddle on a farm’s low spot an “inland waterway” subject to federal regulation is deranged; undoing that was not radical, but commonsensical. Trump sought to revive the cultural atmosphere prior to Obama’s assertion that he would fundamentally transform what had already been a great country. In 2008, it would have been inconceivable that NFL multimillionaires would refuse to stand for the National Anthem — much less in suicidal fashion insult their paying fans by insinuating that they deserved such a snub because they were racists and xenophobes. It was Byzantine that a country would enter an iconoclastic frenzy in the dead of night, smashing and defacing statues without legislative or popular democratic sanction. One would have thought that all Republican presidents and presidential candidates would be something like the antitheses to progressivism. In truth, few really were. The Un-Obama agenda was not simply reflexive or easy — given that Obama was the apotheosis of a decades-long progressive dream. After all, in year one, Trump has been demonized in a manner unprecedented in post-war America, given the astonishing statistic that 90 percent of all media coverage of his person and policies has been negative. Obama was a representation of a progressive view of the Constitution that about a quarter of the population holds, but in Obama, that view found a rare megaphone for an otherwise hard sell. One would have thought that all Republican presidents and presidential candidates would be something like the antitheses to progressivism. In truth, few really were. So given the lateness of the national hour, a President Nobama could prove to be quite a change.

Your Food Diary For:

Friday, January 19, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker - Instant Oatmeal- Maple, 6 packet	960	192	12	24	1,560	72
	960	192	12	24	1,560	72
L U N C H
Culvers Butterburger (2)"the Original"	720	78	32	40	1,020	12
Culver's - Fries	360	53	14	6	443	0
Add Food Quick Tools	1,080	131	46	46	1,463	12
D I N N E R
Sandwich - Peanut Butter and Jelly	700	55	31	17	286	31
	700	55	31	17	286	31
S N A C K S
Met Rx Big 100 Chocolate Cookie Dough	400	58	6	31	167	28
	400	58	6	31	167	28
Totals	3,140	436	95	118	3,476	143
Your Daily Goal	1,995	249	66	100	2,300	74
Remaining	-1,145	-187	-29	-18	-1,176	-69
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 65 extra calories from exercise today

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SATURDAY WEIGHT     249.8 LBS

SHUT HER DOWN

GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN?
OVER DACA?
AGREEMENT WOULD NOT INCLUDE THE WALL?
I SAY, SHUT HER DOWN!

Really, no one cares too much.
The Democrats will orchestrate the shutdown if they are convinced that ALL the blame will fall to the Republicans. That shouldn't be too hard as the Media IS the democratic party.

All this makes it more amazing that Trump was elected, and that he is doing a great job.

It's been a tough week for the Democrats, this was the week that they learned that Trump is in good health and not likely to keel over from a heart attack any time soon. It's the same week that they learned that more and more companies are giving bonuses to their workers as a result of the new tax policy passed by the Republicans. It's the same week that they learned that Apple Computer is planning on repatriating BILLIONS of dollars into the country and paying BILLIONS of dollars in taxes to the US Treasury. It's the same week that they learned that new jobless claims are the lowest in nearly 50 years. Yep, it's been a complete DISASTER for the America-hating, self-hating, hateful Democrats that infest the Congress and media. You are probably wondering how I really feel. I don't like them.

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Your Food Diary For:

Thursday, January 18, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker - Pumpkin Spice Oatmeal	800	160	13	20	900	50
	800	160	13	20	900	50
L U N C H
Panda Express Fried Rice, Brown Steamed Rice	440	75	11	10	420	2
Panda Express Shanghai Angus Steak	340	26	10	34	1,280	18
Panda Express Grilled Teriyaki Chicken	360	10	16	44	640	10
	1,140	111	37	88	2,340	30
D I N N E R
Roast Beef and Swiss Sandwich	400	29	16	35	1,137	6
Mashed Potatoes	200	29	8	3	304	2
	600	58	24	38	1,441	8
S N A C K S
Protein Plus Protein Bar MET-Rx	400	37	13	41	123	1
	400	37	13	41	123	1
Totals	2,940	366	87	187	4,804	89
Your Daily Goal	2,097	262	70	105	2,300	78
Remaining	-843	-104	-17	-82	-2,504	-11
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 167 extra calories from exercise today

SH*THOLE COUNTRIES

OK, let's say that President Donald Trump did ask (obviously rhetorically) Why does the United States take all these immigrants from shithole countries? (or something like that)  If he did say it, it was said within the confines of a private meeting. It was not meant for public consumption. If he did say it, then Senator Dick Durbin is a jerk for announcing to the world that it was said. (Don't worry, Dick Durbin, no matter what you are still a jerk anyway)  What public leaders say in private is not a reflection of how they act. It takes a over-educated, brain-washed New York Times reader to be unable to differentiate between what is publicly said and what is publicly done. 

Actual Americans, those that do not think that the Bible is published every day under the banner of The New York Times know exactly what was meant by this (obviously crude) remark, that is, if it was indeed said at all and in private. Why don't we make efforts to accept as immigrants some of the best and brightest people who can immediately contribute to our country? I believe some of the most elite universities in our country discriminate and accept the best people available. I believe some of the most elite companies in our country discriminate and accept the best people available. Are you telling me that if an unemployed and unemployable person and a distinguished highly regarded doctor or engineer are applying for immigration status to our country - they are regarded equally?  Does this really make sense? Does our immigration policy ever regard the person individually? Are any efforts made to accept into our country some of the best and brightest that are clamoring to join us? I don't know. This is an honest question

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Your Food Diary For:

Monday, January 15, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker - Instant Grits - Cheddar Cheese	600	120	9	18	2,820	6
	600	120	9	18	2,820	6
L U N C H
Poached Eggs	300	2	20	25	629	1
Sausage Links	200	1	18	10	480	1
Brownberry Whole Grain	240	44	5	8	300	8
	740	47	43	43	1,409	10
D I N N E R
Spicy Salmon Roll	350	51	10	14	711	0
Spider Roll	350	59	4	20	804	8
	700	110	14	34	1,515	8
S N A C K S
Klondike Bar	250	29	14	3	70	23
Chocolate Chip Cookies	350	45	19	4	227	23
	600	74	33	7	297	46
Totals	2,640	351	99	102	6,041	70
Your Daily Goal	2,162	270	72	109	2,300	81
Remaining	-478	-81	-27	7	-3,741	11
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 232 extra calories from exercise today

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TAX CUT TODAY?

Our President, Donald Trump, and the Republican Party are about to 'make good' on a promise to change our tax code. Naturally, there are some people who are unhappy. I believe that this is going to be good for America. Everyone knows that the fairest tax code of all would be a simple code where every American pays the same rate, for example 10% of income. We are not there yet, but I am convinced that the new tax law will be an improvement for many Americans. Every single day, I wake up to some new good news emanating from the White House. I understand why Democrats, Liberals and Lefties don't like Donald Trump. The mystery remains, why are there so many so-called Republicans and Conservatives who cling to their enmity for this man?  One theory: Donald Trump is governing like a true conservative, very few people believed durning the campaign that he was a conservative. Apparently, Trump was very honest about his core beliefs. I admit that I was surprised. Pleasantly surprised, but surprised nevertheless.

Your Food Diary For:

Monday, December 18, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Grits	500	110	8	10	1,550	5
Cinnamon Raisin Bagel	400	67	11	13	706	11
	900	177	19	23	2,256	16
L U N C H
Salisbury Steak	440	14	32	23	818	0
Brussel Sprouts	100	15	2	5	0	0
Cream Corn	100	22	1	2	360	8
	640	51	35	30	1,178	8
D I N N E R
Kirkland Salmon Burger, 2 piece	340	4	18	40	660	0
Kale salad	150	15	9	3	150	10
	490	19	27	43	810	10
S N A C K S
Fudge Bar - 100 Calorie, 3 Bar	300	66	0	6	270	51
	300	66	0	6	270	51
Totals	2,330	313	81	102	4,514	85
Your Daily Goal	3,734	467	124	187	2,300	140
Remaining	1,404	154	43	85	-2,214	55
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,804 extra calories from exercise today

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